Oven Jerk Pork Chops with Pineapple Sauce

These oven-baked jerk pork chops are bold, smoky, and packed with Caribbean flavor. The pork chops are seasoned generously with jerk marinade, green seasoning, aromatic dry herbs, and warm spices, then marinated to deepen the flavor before being baked until tender and juicy.
Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Servings: 6 people
Course: Main
Cuisine: Jamaican
Calories: 850
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • Ingredients for Pork chops
  • 3 lbs bone in pork chops boneless is fine
  • 1 tbsp jerk marinade
  • 1 tbsp green seasoning
  • 1 ½ tsp salt black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, all purpose seasoning, smoked paprika, Caribbean sazon ( any sazon is fine)Debbies homemade dry jerk rub, combination blended dry herbs, ( thyme, parsley, rosemary, marjoram)
  • 1 tbsp liquid smoke
  • Ingredients Sauce
  • 1 cup crush pineapple with juice
  • Juice of ½ lemon
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tbsp hoisin sauce
  • 6-8 tbsp water
  • Pinch of fresh ginger diced or grated
  • 6 cloves garlic minced
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 1 tsp olive oil
  • ½ tsp of salt black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, smoked paprika, ground scotch bonnet pepper
  • 2 green onions diced

Method
 

  1. Wash and clean porkchops with water and white vinegar. Season with all the seasonings listed, using your hands be sure to rub seasonings well into porkchops Cover and marinade at least 2 hours (overnight if possible)
  2. Preheat oven to 350, spray baking pan with oil of choice. Layer pork chops on baking pan, bake uncovered for a total of 45 minutes, flipping them at the halfway mark. At about 12 minutes to pork chops finishing, in a large sauce pan, add olive oil and butter, add minced garlic sauté for2 minutes, add crush pineapple, and stir to combine, add green onions, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce, honey, lemon juice, water, str and mix well to combine, add the dry seasonings and mix well to combine. Add the pork chops in , flip them so both sides will have sauce, then using a large spoon, continue to coat each pieces. Cover and cook on low for 8 minutes.

Notes